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Looking at the post work done on some of the food photos

Looking at the post work done on some of the food photos

From the course: Travel Photography: Portrait of a City Neighborhood

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Looking at the post work done on some of the food photos

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Male: I would like to show you a few of the things that I do to improve my images using post-processing software. So, I'm going to look at this picture here and see right away that it's a little flat. It's lacking some contrast. So, in Lightroom's Develop module I'm going to come over to the basic panel, and I'm going to move the clarity slider to the right, and that's going to bump up the mid-tone contrast. And right away there's an improvement. I'm also going to move my black slider to the left. going to darken the blacks, give it more contrast. But by doing that I've also closed down the shadow areas and lost detail there. Now, Lightroom has a wonderful shadow recovery capability, by just moving the shadow slider over to the right I'll open up the shadow areas. And also I can recover details that are lost in the highlights by moving highlight slider over to the left, which I've also done here. And then finally I've moved the exposure value slightly over to the right, increasing the…

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